Failed to mount /sysroot during boot

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hi, seems this bug is still sleeping here :frowning:
Did a full update yesterday on my main machine (pacman only) and then tried to boot the lts-kernel.
It’s installed from ISO version 2025.03.19
Same problem as described in the thread here. Has been before the same.
dracut --version → dracut 108.
Tried to use the fallback initrd - no success.
dracut-rebuild - no success.

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Hard reset is the only option here.

No more ideas now…

P.S. Searched around in lsinitrd, found a module ext4.ko.zst - seems to be another prob :frowning:
P.S.-2: The errormessage above misses a ‘dm_mod’ module, but I found a dm-mod.ko.zst ???
Edit3: in /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/70dm/module-setup.sh I found this:

installkernel() {
    hostonly=$(optional_hostonly) instmods '=drivers/md' dm_mod dm-cache dm-cache-mq dm-cache-cleaner

But why does it work on default-kernel?

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1 endeavouros/dracut 108_eos-1 (576.2 KiB 1.5 MiB) (Installed)
    An event driven initramfs infrastructure

Is this installed??

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# pacman -Qs dracut
local/dracut 108_eos-1
    An event driven initramfs infrastructure
local/eos-dracut 1.7-1
    Dracut scripts and hooks for EndeavourOS

  • have done # pacman -Syu just before my tests…

  • That’s no solution - the problem persits :frowning:
    cannot boot the lts-kernel. See the picture.

BTW: How to handle this solution-marker? Could not find any instructions here.

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Perhaps you could get that file. It may reveal something interesting.

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The only thing I can do here is a cold reboot / switch off.
No input possible.
And on my disk I will find nothing, I think, because /run is in RAM located…

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You should be able to enter the password. It will look like nothing is happening.

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Normally you could give your root password at that prompt to get into a root shell.

If you say no input is possible, I don’t know why.

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Thats what I expected, too. Nope.
Will try the password once again…

Edit: No password, no CTRL-D accepted. Dead.

Edit2: Don’t know, if it will matter: I’m using efi-stub for booting (rEFInd), no grub or systemd.
But, as already said - default-kernel has no problem…

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Have you tried running sudo dracut-rebuild

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Sure, 2 or 3 times…
But could not use the other initrd, the same stop. From running default-kernel only.

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How big is your efi partition?

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It doesn’t show the password when you type. You need to type the password and press enter.

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200MB, used 7,49MB.
No kernels or any sys-stuff here (rEFInd).

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I did this around 20x…
Nothing.
I’ve never seen such thing.

Edit: checked my kbd-layout, because I have a special char inside - nothing.
Then I’ve seen the numlock does not toggle anymore (the LED).
Now I’m sure, it is really hard locked.

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Today I tried a re-install of my old iso, but found, that I can install the lts-kernel along the default only.
(Tried to install lts alone…)
So I think, I’m captured in this circle.
If I remember right, the Cachy-installer can do so, the Calamares-installer, too.

The next iso,I think, should have this possibility too.

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